Rochdale Still Lives in Print

Dismissed by some as a hippie’s dream, and remembered by others as a radical education experiment, it’s hard at times to fully grasp what Rochdale College was and its lasting legacy.

But while the “free university” was shuttered back in ’75, it still lives — in a manner of speaking.

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the experimental, student-run school and community living, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library has rustled together archival materials for a display.

The mini display includes a fake degree, photographs, course booklets, a student card, newspaper and magazine clippings, printed ephemera and samplings of the various publications (and their iterations) that circulated the college’s halls, including the Daily, the Daily Planet, Tuesdaily, Undaily, the New Daily, the Bulletin, the Rochdale “Occasionally.”

The display is on until March 30 on the second floor of the University of Toronto library.

 

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